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What are the

consequences

for pharmacy?

Financial Reputation

Losses: Damage:

A data breach can result A data breach can severely
in financial losses. This damage the reputation of a
can include expenses company. Patients may lose
related to investigations, trust in the pharmacy's ability
remediation, legal fees, to protect their sensitive
and potential fines or information, leading to a loss
penalties imposed by of customers and negative
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regulatory authorities. word-of-mouth publicity .

Operational
Disruption:

A data breach can disrupt the
smooth operation of a pharmacy. Legal
This can include downtime for
systems and processes as the Consequences:
breach is investigated and
remediated. It may also require In the event of a data
additional resources to breach, there may be legal
restore systems and consequences if the pharmacy
strengthen security fails to comply with data
measures . protection laws. This can include
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potential lawsuits from affected
patients and regulatory actions
taken by data protection
authorities .
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2 Pharmaceutical Journal - How pharmacists can comply with GDPR: https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/
article/ld/how-pharmacists-can-comply-with-gdpr
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